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I'm not summarising V8 due to RL time constraints, instead I'll just provide a bonus translation of V6., which has also been added to the V6 summary posted previously. After which, I'm heading back to the long-neglected V11.2...

Spoiler for V6 Flaming:

The fight between Crow and Utan is one-sided at first: Haruyuki is stunned at this ISS kit thing. Between blows, Utan explains he got the Kit from somebody, that person isn't Ash Roller or the word on the Kit would have got out much faster. Maiden can talk while Accelerated, she asks Crow to block the IS attacks for a bit to stall, so that she can charge her own IS skill.

==Translation Start==

Not knowing what to do next, Haruyuki turned back to look at Ardor Maiden.

The diminutive masked avatar slowly waved the hand fan in her right hand, almost as though she was dancing.

At this, a long-forgotten memory in Haruyuki's recollection was suddenly awakened:

He has seen such a thing before in the past. On a certain performing stage when he was much younger, he was brought by his parents to visit the Yasukuni Shrine. Mysterious music was playing all around, and the girl dressed in white with a red pleated skirt danced with a fan in one hand. It was exactly the same kind as the one Utai was performing now, but with some different details. The performer was not masked like Ardor Maiden, and her actions were much more vigourous than Utai's. Utai's own dance, overall, appeared much more like a masterpiece than the one Haruyuki remembered.

Haruyuki had long forgetten about the battle just in front of him, and continued to admire the dancing of Ardor Maiden.

Without warning--from the mouth of that avatar, a bright, clear voice resounded. It was not a shout, but easily propagated over the entire field, and seemed nothing else than «Singing».

"Three kinds of suffering, they recur and remind the heart~"

Suddenly, the grassy fields covering the entire stage shuddered. It was not transpiration - it was flames. Flames surrounded Utai and spread far away to the edges of the stage. That was the indication of an Incarnate System Skill, «Over-Ray», or excess light, that was covering the entire stage. To the point, of surpassing even the erosion-type Incarnate System skill employed by Rust Jigsaw, «Rusting Order», which he used during the Hermes Vertical Cord Race last week.

"And yet, keeping calm, even just a little~"

The world--was set on fire.

Lotus-like red flames rose into the sky in all directions, completely scorching the grassy plains. The whole stage had been dyed red, with countless embers dotting the sky like stars.

A two-metre circle of space around Utai was untouched, with naught an ember inside this space. But the illusion of being completely untouched by those flames was enough to send Haruyuki gasping for breath.

Ardor Maiden gracefully waved her fan. The violently raging flames spread, burning the grass and even the ground to ash.

Between the curtains of fire, a vague shadow could be seen.

That was Bush Utan, whose entire body had been engulfed in flames. His two arms had long ago been incinerated.

And yet unbelievably, his face had no expression of pain whatsoever, only an unreadable expression. He looked down on his own body which had just been toasted into a pillar of flame. Haruyuki reflexively checked their HP gauges; Bush Utan's gauge was dropping at an alarming speed. It dropped below 30% in the blink of an eye, as though the flames itself was burning the gauge away. 2%--1%--zero.

With a flash of light and a sound effect, the avatar-shaped pillar of flame disappeared.

Even so, the short avatar continued with her dance. While watching her in silence, Haruyuki finally felt all the puzzle pieces fall into place, and understood:

«Maiden» had another meaning aside from «young girl». It also had the meaning of a shrine maiden that serves God. It was natural, thus, to think of a shrine maiden upon seeing the red and white colour of her avatar, because it was synonymous to a «Magician».

And «Ardor»'s meaning is that of blazing. Even hotter than mere «Fire», more ferocious than «Flames».

Ardor Maiden.

Its meaning, thus, is «Shrine Maiden Of Sacred Fire».

==Translation End==

My Chinese isn't good enough to completely translate that song, here's the original lines:
「《催心轮回三热苦》」
「《清凉少许唯此度》」

-_- cry and whine? I haven't read further or heard of him whining again after his utter defeat from Noumi. And he has the right to cry and be depressed at that arc because his pride was taken away from him. His wings is his identify and its his hope. It also signifies that he wants to fly more than anyone playing BB. After that event I don't remember him being such a whiner.

Vol 05 = he helps KYH get over her trauma in the fight. He lets her cut him in half. Dusk Taker shows up to get eaten alive by Chrome Disaster Silver Crow.
Vol 06 = They helped another member of Negas Nebula
Vol 07 = The past of Chrome Disaster and the battle between best friends. Haru and Taku
Vol 08 = I'm not familiar on this volume.
Vol 09 = Chrome Disaster and Rin
Vol 10 = SS
Vol 11 and above. I'm not familiar on this volumes too.

If you read the progress of the Story. THERE IS A STORY!!!!

its not episodic and there is character development on the characters. Different emotions was shown from betrayals and facing his own fears and past trauma or problems.

There are more to Accel World than what you can ask for when you try to read it and understand it.

Well if you can get over the fact that the MC is not bishie and just a pig >_> people and their views of the world.

-_- cry and whine? I haven't read further or heard of him whining again after his utter defeat from Noumi. And he has the right to cry and be depressed at that arc because his pride was taken away from him. His wings is his identify and its his hope. It also signifies that he wants to fly more than anyone playing BB. After that event I don't remember him being such a whiner.

Vol 05 = he helps KYH get over her trauma in the fight. He lets her cut him in half. Dusk Taker shows up to get eaten alive by Chrome Disaster Silver Crow.
Vol 06 = They helped another member of Negas Nebula
Vol 07 = The past of Chrome Disaster and the battle between best friends. Haru and Taku
Vol 08 = I'm not familiar on this volume.
Vol 09 = Chrome Disaster and Rin
Vol 10 = SS
Vol 11 and above. I'm not familiar on this volumes too.

If you read the progress of the Story. THERE IS A STORY!!!!

its not episodic and there is character development on the characters. Different emotions was shown from betrayals and facing his own fears and past trauma or problems.

There are more to Accel World than what you can ask for when you try to read it and understand it.

Well if you can get over the fact that the MC is not bishie and just a pig >_> people and their views of the world.

Spoiler for Correction:

Vol. 5: Rust Jigsaw will appear not Dusk Taker.

Vol. 8: Resolution of the Haru Taku fight and a revelation of one of the secrets of the BB's main server.

Vol. 11: Judgment of Silver Crow and introduction of ARG's new member(lab rat).

Xplorer30 apologises for the slow pace, he's having RL stuff to handle.

So, Kaixax555, Superior Superboy, and me are all apparently serving military service on 7th May. o_o Kaixax will do his best to finish the second half of V9.1 before that date though. As for Superboy and me, I may give him Traces Of Prominence while I work on V11.3 at a snail's pace. Maybe. I haven't asked him yet.

I am guessing Argon Array would either an Originator or a second generation burst linker to have known the Kings for so long. From the looks of it, the ARG already know of the Kings' plans thanks to Argon Array. So much for the element of surprise.

Going by the information I have as of now, this is how translation progress stands for each volume:

V5:Eternal Dreamer is about a fifth of the way through chapter four. Having just finished Chapter 4, he should be going back to work on chapter 5 with his usual slow-but-steady pace. ( :

V6: Xplorer30 is having RL stuff and trouble with the hard kanji, as usual.

V7: Kai Ding is on hiatus, not known when he's coming back.

V8: Breakdown16 last said (as of April 11th) that he is nearly finished all of V8, save for the parts he lost when his laptop died. B16, you speed demon...

Also in that post, he will be starting SS1, the Graphite Edge side story too.

V9: Kaixax555, me, and Superior Superboy are all going to the army on May 7th. Kaixax said he'll get out V9.1/2/3 at least by then, so at least tomorrow or the day after, he'll update accordingly, I think. He also said his progress will slow down after said date. (link here.)

V10: Haven't heard from Lan013, and he's on the Inactive list. :/

(Personally, I'm considering taking up only the entire side story (The Farthest Sound Of Waves) to host on my translation blog. No promises as of yet though, for obvious reasons.

V11: I printed out V11.3 to read in my spare time, but without access to a computer it'll be three weeks at least before I can type out the translations. Or maybe I'll split it into seven parts and release them each week. As for Superor Superboy, he's in the same boat as me.

V12: Still no takers as of yet, so when I finish V11 I'll probably take this up as well. However, if anyone wants to do it first, go ahead and clear with Xplorer30 before registering.

==Updates End==

I've obtained Japanese raws for all the partially translated volumes now! I can finally go fix the Kansai accented dialogue in V11.2. Though, just like Kaixax said, after May 7th my translation progress will slow greatly. Don't expect instant updates here either when new chapters are released, so do check BT for yourself (and post here if new updates were made!)

Last edited by Tusjecht; 2013-05-05 at 18:04.
Reason: Ch4 released this morning...

The real world Pard-san, who he hadn’t met in a while, was fortunately—or perhaps unfortunately, dressed not in her maid-style uniform from the cake shop, but in a T-shirt and slim jeans.
His gaze unconsciously wandered to the unexpected volume that pushed up her tightfitting clothing, which he hadn’t been able to perceive when she had worn her loose apron.

Haruyuki, boy oh boy. Kuroyukihime will Death By Embracing you if she hears this.

Then again, it depends on whether the translators want to work on them, since nobody allocates translators on BT.

...Well, there was that CZ poll I could have chosen from in the past...it's still valid, in some way.

Let me put it this way. Accel World's translation is comparatively slow when compared to series like A Certain Magical Index, and Sword Art Online, which get translated very quickly.

However it's "slowness" is downright fast when compared to a series like Durarara that's seen virtually every translation project stall out. Or for that matter, a series like Slayers, which has taken years to see any further progress.

The point being that while it would be nice if translations if Accel World's translations were as fast at the fastest translated series out there, it's translation speed hardly qualifies as slow by the standards of light novel translations.

The 'Spiritual Predecessor' of Accel World, 'Just in My Eyes', have been finished translated into Chinese.

Spoiler for comparisons with AW:

-The ISS virus shows its previous form here, as something that infects virtual pets and could move on to affect BICs.

-The name 'Noumi' is recycled into AW. AW's Rin (aka Ash Roller's RL form) also is a expy of a girl named Yuki here.

-RKL comments: This story is unfinished, about only 20% of a LN volume's length. And this was written in 2002, about the same time as SAO WEB version. This story was abandoned in favour of writing SAO, the more popular story which eventually got published.
RKL snarks that something had happened to Kawahara during this time to shift him shipping "imouto moe" into shipping "older woman compared to main character" - RKL felt Asuna being one year older than Kirito was something tacked on at the end. In JiME it was clear Takeru was shipped with his imouto, despite the 'official girlfriend' sempai and a kouhai newly falling for Takeru.

Oh, and judging by RKL's comments, expect SAO LN Vol13 some time around August 2013.

Let me put it this way. Accel World's translation is comparatively slow when compared to series like A Certain Magical Index, and Sword Art Online, which get translated very quickly.

However it's "slowness" is downright fast when compared to a series like Durarara that's seen virtually every translation project stall out. Or for that matter, a series like Slayers, which has taken years to see any further progress.

The point being that while it would be nice if translations if Accel World's translations were as fast at the fastest translated series out there, it's translation speed hardly qualifies as slow by the standards of light novel translations.

Unfortunately, that depends if there are translators out there who are willing to translate those stories.

The thing, as I repeat like a broken recorder over and over again, is that the projects are all dependent on the translators. There is no allocation of translators out there, and even if you talk about speed of translation, you can't compare it to the monster translators like js06 on Index, who basically translates 20 times faster than everyone else. As for SAO...that's kinda my fault.

The harvest is many, but the workers are few. The trend here is that people demand mostly about a series that had been animated/is being animated, and that often goes for translations as well. I can bet with you that there will be some who'll attempt to translate Kizumonogatari if it ever got animated.